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Le parfaict ioaillier, ou, Histoire des pierreries : où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, iuste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contre-faites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuses

by: Boodt, Anselmus de, 1550-1632

Publication date: 1644

Topics: Precious stones, Precious stones -- Early works to 1800, Gems -- Early works to 1800, Precious stones -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800, Precious stones -- Therapeutic use, Gems

Publisher: A Lyon : Chez Iean-Antoine Huguetan, marchand libraire, en ruë Merciere, à l'Enseigne de la Sphere

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Item Size: 930.0M

Translator's preface signed by Jean Bachou

Engraved device on t.p. Woodcut in-text ill. Head- and tail-pieces, initials

Signatures: ã e A-3C

95-96 repeated in paging

Includes errata

Binding: modern vellum, lapped foredges. Title & date lettered on spine. Signed: Mavaux

[32], 746 [i.e., 748], [36] pages, [2] folded leaves : 18 cm (8vo)

Translation of: Gemmarum et lapidum historia

Signatures: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ A-3C⁸

Numbers 95-96 repeated in pagination

Title page printed in red and black

Engraved title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes errata on leaf 3C8 recto

Notes

No table of contents. Foxing. Extremely narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text is impossible to capture as it is bound into the gutter. Irregular pagination. Misprinted page numbers.